Bobby I'd repost the symptoms in the Technical Help section, just to attract the eye of a couple of the hardware guys.
But, that doesn't sound like a virus to me. It sounds like a possible faulty hard drive.
Posted possible solution to your journal.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
Problem solved!
Good. What was the problem anyway? Well, actually, what caused it?
Faulty crumbs stuck in my 6 year old keyboard...
Yeah, those 6 yr old crumbs will get ya everytime!
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Faulty crumbs stuck in my 6 year old keyboard...
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<---- Dies a little inside
Be well, people of CoH.
... what, you haven't had to clean all the keyboard chow out of your keyboard before?
But yeah, random keys being pressed/held down at boot-up = bad
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
Dust buildup and once a coke. I have a strict no food rule in my office at work and home.
Mostly because of that coke. I like that keyboard. 
Be well, people of CoH.
Once, my mom called me screaming up a storm.
"I HAVE SPYWARE! I JUST KNOW IT!! THEYVE PROBABLY GOT ALL MY INFORMATION AND I'M GOING TO GET MY IDENTITY STOLEN.. etc... etc.." on and on she went. Freaking out about how some of her keys wouldn't work and how it was typing automatically. She's talking about calling her credit bureaus, how shes screwed -- and screaming man!
I told her to calm down. I came over and took one look at the keyboard. I popped off one of the keys.
There was SO much soda that had glazed over that the keys were stuck. Apparently, her husband had spilled soda in the keyboard and thought he cleaned it up a few days before. When it kept working the next day, he decided not to say anything. He was computer illiterate at the time.
Whatever.
Yeah I'm not that bad, but it was an old keyboard, one I had thought I had cleaned a few days ago, little did I know I was moving the crumbs around to just the right Rubic's configuration.
But lesson learned! Though I have to say, typing on this thing drives me nuts, I'm constantly substituting \ for '
Hrrrm. Methinks it's time LJ got a new keyboard.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
Trouble, when it rains it pours...
Edit: thanks again bud for your input... I know you saw this, but thought I'd put it in this thread anyway, instead of starting another...
Soul Train 2007
LJ